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California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 230 points 1 month ago (26 children)

This is awesome to hear. But the fact that they had to do this after the fact tells you all you need to know about how stupid and poorly thought out to these laws are.

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  • [–] 73 points 1 month ago (13 children)

    Good, one more reason to slowly push people out of Microsoft's clutches.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Yeah but today’s exemption is tomorrow’s loophole to be closed.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Ay? An exemption is not a loophole.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Right, it’s an exemption now.

    But the age gate crowd will call it a loophole in the future.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    New reason to use Linux: You're seventeen years old and want to watch porn.

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  • [+] -1 points 1 month ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    True but that's like saying that your spleen is you. I met that guy he's an asshole or maybe I was thinking of the sphincter. But I digress. There absolutely are people, good people at Microsoft that do contribute a lot to free and open source projects. But Microsoft as a company has been horrible for 40 years. Never good for anyone unless perhaps you are working for them?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    To be fair our situation is unprecedented. Children with access to social media (for some reason) interacting endlessly with AI slop.

    Research indicates we’ve already wiped out 30 years of literacy progress.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Which 30 years? Because AI or not I'm thinking certain groups have been attacking literacy for at least the last 30 years.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    These are '23 scores, part of it was due to lockdown. Which we're slowly approaching the point of which, 13 year olds had their entire school period in class again.

    But I do, as you do, expect the capabilities to have free further from '23 to '25

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    We need more people writing laws who possess real domain knowledge. My students these days die whenever I play them "series of tubes."

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    That or for them to value and seek out subject matter experts. Unfortunately the system has largely rigged itself to make it hard or impossible for those knowledgeable to hold office even if they wanted to. That last part being huge.

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